Lions host the NZ side at Ellis Park on Sunday, but the away following will be sparse
Johan Ackermann’s men will host the Crusaders in Johannesburg next weekend after edging out their Kiwi rivals. South African Twitter rejoiced, while New Zealand Twitter moaned like hell.
Last week Friday, SA Rugby announced that both the Cheetahs and the Southern Kings had agreed that they would be the South African fall guys for Super Rugby in 2018.
Lions showed no mercy with their 14-try blitz, and nor did the ex-Springboks coach
After the relatively quick turnaround in Springbok fortunes over the last month, the challenge of measuring up to the All Blacks is on the horizon. But there is one more administrative change SA Rugby needs to make before then.
He might have a reputation for being a bit confrontational, but John Mitchell has a pretty impressive track record.
South African sides aren’t travelling that well this season…
Nick Mallett wants Port Elizabeth to keep a Super Rugby franchise.
While Super Rugby lurches from one insipid match to the next, with the odd cracking game rearing its head infrequently, the lobbying and infighting occurring in the boardrooms by the “faceless men in suits” – a wonderful phrase coined by Wallabies’ flanker Scott Fardy – continues to be the sideshow in an otherwise irrelevant season.
Super Rugby will get a facelift from next season… or is that a chemical peel?
Definitely one of the most insane offloads from this years’ Super Rugby tournament so far…if not the best!
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Andrew Mehrtens has joined the chorus of those who feel the Super Rugby format is a bit foolish.
Don’t touch him on his Australian teams.
As the big cheeses of the sport descended on Cape Town to fix everything from Super Rugby to the Springboks, we look at what, if anything, came out of it apart from hot air.
The NZRU say that they have not given up on the fight just yet.
It’s only for two fixtures at the start of the season.
A rousing and in-depth look by Supersport at the Lions’ rise from despair to becoming one of the best teams in provincial rugby. Interviews with Johan Ackermann, Swys de Bruin, Warren Whiteley, Courtnall Skosan and Jaco Kriel.
The regular season of Super Rugby has come to an end and the Lions have to be content with second place on the overall log.